[Asmithey]

I had this problem once when I was trying to render a emitter through a glass pendant fixture. I found my pendant had some bad geometry. So I recreated my glass pendant more carefully and the dots went away.

Aaron

[choo-chee]

double check it. If you imported stuff from another scene (like the furniture, or background) you may have forgotten to delete SSS there. maybe in the lamps? maybe a plant that is located outside the room? I am sure. I had the same problem and it was over the minute I removed old SSS materials from trees I imported from an older scene. I use maya: I do "delete unused nodes" in the materials section, "optimize scene" and then check again.